Building the Empire Pairs Game - Collaborative Learning

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Building the Empire Pairs Game

First developed by Susan Hart and Stuart Scott in 1981. This is a colouring in activity that is more likely to help students to remember the dates, if they need to remember them, or simply to demonstrate the way in which the empire was conquered. You can make the game more difficult by not providing the table and putting province info on the cards.You can make the game easier by printing the slaves cards in a different colour from the tribute cards.The webaddress for this activity is:<http://www.collaborativelearning.org/buildingtheempire.pdf>Last updated 11th March 2009

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Building the Empire Pairs GameThis is a game for two players, or even better, two pairs of players. You need your map, table of Roman provinces and a set of coloured pencils or pens.

To conquer an area you need a slaves card and a tribute card for the right date. There are two pairs of cards for each date.

Spread all the cards face down on the table.

Each player or pair takes turns to pick up a pair of cards.

When you pick a pair, you can shade in the provinces you have conquered on your map. If you use a different colour for each date you will see how the Empire grew.

A more difficult form of the game is to try to conquer the provinces in date order. In this case you first have to pick up the pair for 270BC and so on. For this version you must make the slave and tribute cards a different colour or the level of difficulty may lead to anger or frustration.



DATE PLACES CONQUERED

270BC 1. ETRURIA 2. CAMPANIA

220BC 3. SICILIA 4..SARDINIA 5. CORSICA

192BC 6. TARRACONENSIS 7. NARBONENIS 8. EPIRUS

145BC 9. AFRICA (CARTHAGO)

74BC 10. AEGPTUS 11. MACEDONIA 12. ACHAIA 13. BAETIA 14. ASIA 15. ALPES

55BC 16. SYRIA 17. BYTHINIA PONTUS 18.CRETE 19. CILICIA 20. LYCIA 21. CYPRUS

Building the Empire Pairs Game The table below shows you the land the Romans had conquered by each date.

44BC 22. GALLIA LUGDONENSIS 23. GALLIA AQUITANIA 24. MAURETANIA 25. NUMIDIA AND CYRENACIA 26. JUDAEA

AD 14 27. BELGICA 28. HISPANIA 29. ILLYRICUM 30. MOETIA 31. LUSITANIA 32. GALATEA

AD 67 33. BRITANNIA 34. CAPPADOCIA 35. RAETIA 36. NORICUM 37. PANNONIA. 38. THRACIA

AD 106 39. DACIA 40. ARABIA


Building the Empire Pairs Game Slaves Cards - print in a different colour from tribute cards

✁Slaves270BC

Slaves145BC

Slaves55BC

Slaves220BC

Slaves74BC

Slaves192BC

Slaves44BC

Slaves270BC

Slaves220BC

Slaves192BC

Slaves145BC

Slaves74BC

SlavesAD14

SlavesAD67

SlavesAD106

Slaves55BC

Slaves44BC

SlavesAD14

SlavesAD106

SlavesAD67


Building the Empire Pairs Game Tribute Cards - print in a different colour from slaves

✁Tribute270BC

Tribute220BC

Tribute192BC

Tribute145BC

Tribute74BC

Tribute55BC

Tribute44BC

TributeAD14

TributeAD67

TributeAD106

Tribute270BC

Tribute220BC

Tribute192BC

Tribute145BC

Tribute74BC

Tribute55BC

Tribute44BC

TributeAD14

TributeAD67

TributeAD106

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